But I can't test whether it really works - so any help of porters would be apreciated.

Its a common bug on mips and was introduced by a change by default
options in gcc 4.3 - see the archive of debian-mips.

Does this mean I should reassign this bug or just close it because the issue
does not concern arb? Perhaps it is better to keep it severity "minor" to
have a visibla trace for arb users on mips machines (even if I doubt there
are any).
Kind regards
Andreas.
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